Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1887-04-14
TRANSPORTATION.

prCt the Interstate commerce law or
what effect il would have upon their
giving special rates, have been unable
10 name the terms upon which they
would carry the company to Gettys-
burg ard return. This law havinggone
| into effect, the subcommittee appointed
to look after this matter will soon be
able to make q final report, probably
at the meeting next Monday night
Interest in the re0nion increases as
the time for it to he held approaches
and everything indicates that there will
be on hand many from both North and
South who years ago nct as foes and
welcomed one the other with shot and
shell. They now meet as friends and
citizens of grand, reiinited nation.
THE MONUMENT.
The attention of the committee is
now directed most particularly to the
monument proposed TO be erected to
the memory of the gallant men who
| fell in this memorable charge, and to
| mark the spot of the furthcst advance
made by them. A handsome design
has been selected similar to the
base of the Jackson statue on the
| Capitol Square. 1t is to be con-
structod of Virginia granite and
will cost about $500. The design
is for monumcnt5l feet at the base
and 10 feet in height, the main piece to
weigh about j. tons. This would cost
$500 or more. and the size will be
somewhat contracted so that the cost
may be reduced.
This cannot be ordered until snfli-
Gent funds are received, nor can it be
made ready in time unless work on it Is
commenced at an early day. The
committee, therefore, ask their COM
rades of the division to send IN
their contributions as early as pos
sible. All receipts will be acknowledged
through the city papers, and it is pro-
posed to preserve q list of the contribu
tors and deposit it in the State archives.
As committee to receive the contribu
tions and to prepare this list the fol-
lowing gentlemen have been appointed
Colonel Il. l.. Maury, of the Twenty
fourth regiment Captain L. p. Reeve,
Of the First, and Adjutant j. V. Bid
good, Of the Thirty-second.
ITS LOCATION.
The exact spot upon which the monu-
ment will be placed cannot now be
stated, but the probability is that it will
be on Cemetery Ridge, near Ziegler's
grove. The Gettysburg grounds have
been laid off with great care and every
point of interest marked so the proba-
bility is that the committee, which will
90 a few days in advance of the excur-
sion TO locate the monument and see to
its erection, will have no trouble in
finding the furthest point to which
Picke.t's men advanced after passing
through the enemy's first line.
Secretary Loehr has received postal
from the Seventy-frst Pennsylvania
regiment announcing that they have
appointed committee to be on the
grounds Saturday or Sunday next, and
asking if Pickett's division did not wish
TO appoint like committee to meet
them there. The committee goes there
TO make arrangements for the accom-
mediation of the regiment, or a part
of it.
THE INSCRIPTIONS.
There Will be inscriptions on all four
sides Of the monument. They are
piyen below, the first line containing
what will appear on the capitol, next
what will be ON the shaft, and last on
On the base.
First side:
Faithful Unto Death.
Tho Survivors of Picketts Division OF Vir-
ginians
To the Memory, and In Honour OF,
Their Dauntless Comrades
Who Fell
in
Our Splendid Charge,
July B. 1852
>. Clorious is his fate aud enyied Is his lot
Who FOR his country fights and for 1t dies"
"They did all that men could do"
GENERAL LEE.
Second side:
Patriotism.
Pickett's Virginia Association.
Bngades
! Kemper's, Gernets. Armisteads, and Corse's.
Batteries:
Fnyette. latham, Caskie. and Fauquier
"Fortitude Equalled Only by Bravery
Third side:
ValoVr
The brigades Of
| Kemper, Garnet, and Arnistead.
! of Pickett's Division,
| Pierced the Federal lines and reached this
point In their charge OF July 3, 1861 49,,
| Numbers engaged. 400; nnmbers lost, S,3g5:
Charging an army while all the world
wondered"
Fourth side:
Derotion.
Killed In the charge OF
July 8. 1863
Brigade Generals:
Garnett and Armistead.
Regimentai Oficers:
| Colonies Williams, Hodges, Patterson, Stuart
| EdmOnds. McGruder, Owens, Allen,
Ellis, and Wade.
] Iieutenaat-C Colonel Colcott and Major P0ore.
| "PKTERsBURG, June, 1864.
ave uied very hard TO stop Picketts men
! from capturing the broastworks OF the enemy,
| hut couldn't dol II. Il. LEE, General"
The substance of the above inscrip-
tions was sent TO the Gettysburg Com
mittee Ito which all inscriptions have
TO be submitted before they can be
placed on any monument to be put in
the grounds), and met with their ap-
| proyal.
one memoriar-Day for, the whole
south.
The following circular is about to be
cent TO each memorial society in Vir-
ginia and sister southern States, but in-
asmuch as the committee do not know
the addresses of such organizations
they ask that the newspapers of the
South viii give the paper publication
in their columns:
"HEADoUARTERs)
ar. T.. LEE CAM, No. /, G. ",
RICHMOND, Va, April 8, 1887.
- 10 he Memorial Societies Of the
South:
"The members of this association Of
Confederate Veterans recognize the
| fact that the deaths of our comrades,
whose grayes are committed to your
charge, failed to secure the material OBJ
iect Tor which we fought. We do not
admit. however, that they died in vain.
| No heroic action, no deed of self-sacri-
| fee. was ever in vain. The memory and
appreciatiye contemplation of heroism
ever breed the desire for imitation
l r H. l~l.tI.- A. 1.